Player2 said:
Ganoncrotch said:
in terms of retro games though, there is one from my childhood spent hiding from going to church in a gaming arcade that always holds a special place in my heart from Data East Corp, named Tumblepop, self and my brother used to play this for hours and hours in the arcades, one of the best things about the game is just how "fair" it is to the player, if you are skilled enough it's very possible to complete the entire game on a single credit, some of the stages have a lot of enemies in difficult placements but the thing is, if you master the controls you can avoid all the enemies and never get hit. In contrast to this the machines around this were the likes of Final Fight and Turtles in Time which had some boss fights which effectively weren't new or more skillful to beat, but simply things designed to eat a credit or two the further you get into the game the more credits they would consume to pass a boss.
This game is so good... that I've been considering modding my Switch just for emulation to be able to play this on it, even though that would likely get my Switch banned from the eshop and my 70+ games purchased on there.... might be easier to buy a second Switch just for emulation, not sure yet.
But aye if you have Mame handy I would advise giving this game a look, amazing co-op play too which rivals bubble bobble for me.
*pics*
There was a home port of it before... on the original Gameboy but it doesn't quite capture the magic of the original Arcade game and the controls are not quite as responsive as the Arcade so the whole experience just comes apart somewhat.
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Have you played its spiritual sucessor, Diet Go Go?
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Had never played it before, dug out Mame and got it going... dear god, that looks like a Rom hack of Tumblepop more than it does a successor to the game. Some of the enemies are just directly ripped from TP but they have just bizarre non intuitive patterns of movement.
Also the characters movements and attacks are far less precise than in TP from my hour or so of playing Diet Go Go, it's like they were going to try to rip off bubble bobble and their own games.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention that the game exists though, very strange to see something like that after all these years, so similar but so far off Tumblepop imo.
